Audacity of the Spirit

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-36733-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 334, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Philosophy, Literature, and Politics

Autoren/Hrsg.

I Betaneli, Vitali

R Weisensel, Peter

Weitere Mitwirkende

Betaneli, Vitali I.

Weisensel, Peter R.

I Betaneli, Vitali

R Weisensel, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Translators’ Preface

Foreword: Dare to be Wise!

1 A Primer in Dialectics

2 Who is Aleksei Losev?

3 The Book before You

4 Plunge into Living Thought XX

References

Note

Introduction: The Thinkers’ Treasure

Part 1: To Learn Dialectics

1 How Do We Learn to Think?

2 To Think, and to Do

3 Dialectics and Common Sense

1 Movement

2 Rest

3 Mobile Rest

4 Unity of Opposites

5 Unity of Opposites, Directed in a Certain Way

6 Unity and a Struggle of Opposites

7 Unity and a Struggle of Opposites in Its Formation

8 Historical Process

9 The Absolute and the Relative

4 On the Main Systems of Dialectics

5 The Unity of Three Concepts

6 On Dialectics as It Is

Part 2: On the Benefits of Philosophy 8

7 Twelve Theses on the Culture of Antiquity

1 Thesis 1

2 Thesis 2

3 Thesis 3

4 Thesis 4

5 Thesis 5

6 Thesis 6

7 Thesis 7

8 Thesis 8

9 Thesis 9

10 Thesis 10

11 Thesis 11

12 Thesis 12

82 The Philosophy of Antiquity as a Whole and in Its Parts

1 Some Common Prejudices and Preconceptions

1.1 Obstacle 1

1.2 Obstacle 2

1.3 Obstacle 3

2 A General Outline of the Primeval Stage

2.1 Mythology as the Fundamental Ideology

2.2 Communal–Clan Relations

2.3 The Cosmos

2.4 The Historical Oddities of Idea and Matter

2.5 The Philosophy of Antiquity is Nothing Other than Aesthetics

3 An Approximately Systematic Review of the Ideas of a Given Period

3.1 Somatism

3.2 Discreteness and Continuality

3.3 Physiognomism

3.4 Genesiourgy, Telesiourgy, and Cosmologism

3.5 The Inner Life of the Primeval Cosmos

3.6 Dialectics and Primeval Collectivism

3.7 Self-Justification of the Sensual-Material Cosmos

4 Conclusion

9 The Formation of the Marxist-Leninist Culture of Thinking

1 Historical-Philosophical Science

1.1 School of Thought

1.2 School of Philosophy

1.3 Nature, Society, and Culture

1.4 History of Philosophy in Service of the History of Thought

1.5 Philosophy of Culture as the Principle of the Transformation of Reality

1.6 Insufficiency of Understanding Philosophy as a Teaching about the Relation of Thought to Being

1.7 The I, as the Agent of Culture, Is That I Who Has a Goal to Practically Transform Any Not-I

2 Symbol

2.1 Symbol is a Function of Reality

2.2 Symbol is the Meaning of Reality

2.3 Symbol is an Interpretation of Reality

2.4 Symbol is a Signification (Designation) of Reality

2.5 Symbol is a Transformation of Reality

3 Concept and Its Meaning

3.1 Relation among Concepts

3.2 The Concept of the Thing and the Essence of the Thing

3.3 The Concept of the Thing and the Essence of the Thing in Greater Detail: The Concept of the Thing as Its Community

3.4 The Dialectical Way of Knowing Truth

1 0The Philosophy of Culture

1 Virtual Eidologism

2 Sensual-Material Cosmologism

3 Dialectics

4 Intellectual Rupture, or the Rupture of the Intellect

5 Perpetual Returning

6 Ahistoricism

7 Heroism and Fate, or Sculpture and Fatalism

11 History of Philosophy as a School of Thought

1 Thesis 1

2 Thesis 2

3 Thesis 3

4 Thesis 4

Part 3: Worldview and Life

12 On the Eternal Youthfulness of Science

13 Life’s Credo

1 A Thing, a Coming-to-Be, and a Life

2 Life of a Person, Society, and History

3 A Credo, a Sociohistorical Imperative, and a Sacrificial Heroic Feat of Personal Freedom

4 The Most Complex Theory and the Simplest Practice

5 An Example of an Application of a Life Credo to a Historical-Philosophical System

14 Audacity of the Spirit

15 On a Worldview

16 On Being a Member of the Intelligentsia

1 What Is It Not to Be a Member of the Intelligentsia?

2 A Member of the Intelligentsia and Personhood

3 A Member of the Intelligentsia and Ideology

4 A Member of the Intelligentsia and the Transformation of Reality

5 A Member of the Intelligentsia and Culture

6 A Member of the Intelligentsia and Social-Personal Historical Heroism

7 A Member of the Intelligentsia and Simplicity

8 Realization of Being a Member of the Intelligentsia

17 First of All, Become a Student

18 A Miracle without Miracles

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Vitali I. Betaneli, Ph.D. (1977), from the USSR Academy of Sciences, is a retired senior research chemist and educator. He is co-author of three patents, 39 papers, one book, and is the translator and editor of two monographs from English to Russian.

Peter R. Weisensel, Ph.D. (1973) is an emeritus professor of European history, Macalester College (Minnesota, USA). He has published monographs and articles on imperial Russia, and has translated two other books on Russian history from Russian to English.